Lot Essay
Although not much is known of this scribe who signs himself only as Ahmad, the colophon here states that this was the 45th Qur'an that he copied.
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SIGNED AHMAD, CONSTANTINOPLE, DATED END OF SHAWWAL AH 1133/AUGUST 1721 AD
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QUR'AN
SIGNED AHMAD, CONSTANTINOPLE, DATED END OF SHAWWAL AH 1133/AUGUST 1721 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 397ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome verse roundels, sura headings in white rayhani on gold ground set within rectangular cartouches with floral decoration at either end, text panels bordered by gold rules, catchwords, cusped marginal medallions making juz', hizb and sajada, the opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headings and borders, colophon signed and dated in triangular cartouche flanked by gold and polychrome floral illumination, in gilded and tamped red morocco binding with green satin doublures
Text panel 4¾ x 2¾in. (12 x 7cm.); folio 7 x 4¾in. (17.8 x 12cm.)
SIGNED AHMAD, CONSTANTINOPLE, DATED END OF SHAWWAL AH 1133/AUGUST 1721 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 397ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome verse roundels, sura headings in white rayhani on gold ground set within rectangular cartouches with floral decoration at either end, text panels bordered by gold rules, catchwords, cusped marginal medallions making juz', hizb and sajada, the opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headings and borders, colophon signed and dated in triangular cartouche flanked by gold and polychrome floral illumination, in gilded and tamped red morocco binding with green satin doublures
Text panel 4¾ x 2¾in. (12 x 7cm.); folio 7 x 4¾in. (17.8 x 12cm.)
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